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Joan Didion continues to resonate in California, even with a generation nothing like her.

When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.

Updated December 23, 2021 at 2:25 PM ET American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion died on Thursday at her home in New York at age 87 from

Born: December 5, 1934;

Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, produced decades’ worth of memorable work across genres and subjects: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from at home

When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.

Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, produced decades’ worth of memorable work across genres and subjects: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from at home

Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, produced decades’ worth of memorable work across genres and subjects: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from at home

Jack Hedley, who appeared in films including “For Your Eyes Only” opposite...

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